Drop Ovechkin? Need to expose at least $15 million.

[FinnishFlash]

After giving it some more thought, I'd drop Brassard, Barrie and Klingberg.

Last spot was between Klingberg and Buff. I think Klingberg could outscore Buff by 10 points, but Buff more than makes up for it in the other stats. Given the team you have there I think you can lose the 10 points and still be pretty dominant. That drops 14.75 million by my count. I'd probably just drop Pouliot then, he should be very replaceable.

[als_revenge]

Klingberg is signed forever at a great caphit (4.25). RyJo is signed at 4.0, but will likely get a massive raise next year. I might consider dropping RyJo, especially if it means being able to re-up Brett Burns next year. I find it hard to drop Klingberg in a cap league, given how sweet that contract is...

[tobias]

Do you need to expose $15M from 2015-2016 salaries or 2016-2017 salaries?

Anyways, I would drop Brassard, Byfuglien and Barrie (although Burns's next contract would scare me already). (I don't know what I have against those B's today.)

I think that would leave you with around $5M to find three replacements. It's not easy but then again dropping Ovie instead of Byfuglien would only add around $2M to that, and I don't think that would help much, so that's why I'd rather drop Byfuglien over Ovechkin.

Have to expose from last year's cap hits (to prevent picking up a guy on the cheap, knowing that he'd get a big raise, and sort of "cheat" the exposure process).

Good point about the Buff vs Ovi money. When you look at it that way ($2 million difference), it takes on a bit of a different light.